The Heavenly Body (1944)

William Powell: William S. Whitley

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Quotes 

• William S. Whitley : Don't you ever look at stars, Ethel?

  Ethel : I did once, but I'm married now!

• William S. Whitley : Don't kiss me. It's Tuesday.

  Vicky Whitley : There you go. You never take me seriously.

  William S. Whitley : How can I when my planetary emphasis is in my eleventh bungalow?

• Vicky Whitley : How did you live? How did you eat?

  William S. Whitley : I shot my food.

  Vicky Whitley : Quail?

  [the sound of a tally-ho bugle is heard on the soundtrack] 

  William S. Whitley : Soup!

  William S. Whitley : [indicating a pile of tin cans]  Noodle soup!

• William S. Whitley : Astrology, my love, stinks!

• Lloyd X. Hunter : It's a nice instrument you got here, Bill. You know, I had one exactly like it, but I went broke and had to pawn it in a hock shop in a little Arabian village called Al-Shaababeba.

  William S. Whitley : Yeah, that's where I bought it.

• Vicky Whitley : His life is empty; no home, no companion; sleeping in hotel lobbies; always walking alone.

  William S. Whitley : I'll buy him a dog.

• William S. Whitley : Hey, you're trembling.

  Vicky Whitley : Would you rather I froze?

• William S. Whitley : Have a cigarette? Have a drink. Have the moon!

• William S. Whitley : This is lunacy!

  Vicky Whitley : No, it's destiny.

• William S. Whitley : It was ordained from the beginning of time that these two bodies would eventually get together. No cosmic power could prevent it.

• Vicky Whitley : Bill, what a surprise.

  William S. Whitley : I flew down! Darling, your words gave me - wings.

• Vicky Whitley : Bill, don't you realize?

  William S. Whitley : What?

  Vicky Whitley : It's happened.

  William S. Whitley : What happened?

  Vicky Whitley : He came.

• William S. Whitley : Do you know anything about cosmic flashes?

• William S. Whitley : What's the best way to drink vodka?

• Vicky Whitley : Good, go ahead, shoot me. I wouldn't blame you.

  William S. Whitley : Well... I'm sorry, but I'm not shooting anybody except by appointment.

• Professor Stowe : Out with it, Bill. What's up?

  William S. Whitley : [pointing upward]  Jupiter.

  Professor Stowe : Jupiter?

  William S. Whitley : Jupiter has been facing a square aspect of the moon, in Vicky's, uh, seventh house.

  Professor Stowe : What are you talking about?

  William S. Whitley : [sarcastically]  Oh, a great science. A science that says I mustn't kiss my wife on Tuesdays, because the semi-sextile aspect of Neptune is in opposition to Donald Duck.